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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by modeless on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @01:07PM (#15863325)
Several phones already have neural net acceleration hardware in them today, including the latest iPhones.
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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by Retric on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @02:10PM (#15863941)
Some iPhones are manufactured with this, but again if you have paid for the hardware you care about performance on that hardware. If you have yet to buy anything then theoretical performance per $ becomes the meaningful metric.
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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by jacksmith21006 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @12:36PM (#15872036)
Same with the Pixel 2. But the Pixel 2 appears to be a bit more powerful than the iPhone neural chip. The PVC is able to do 3 TOPS but we really need instructions supported and word size to truly compare.
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